• themeatbridge
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    1 year ago

    Or, we use those terms metaphorically to help understand esoteric concepts. The mind is the moving average of the unbroken chain of electrochemical interactions between neurons. It’s like a symphony of interconnected brain cells squirting neurotransmitters at each other to form a Rube Goldbergesque stimulus monster.

    An orchestra is made of players and instruments and written music and all of the practice and training. The music they play is not one thing, but the combination of all things, yet we speak of the song as if it were an object.

    It’s the same with the mind. We think of it as a discrete, functioning machine, but really it is the product of a million tiny machines working together.

    • Archmage AzorOP
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      01 year ago

      But the mind isn’t an object, you can’t touch the mind. Not with your hands anyway

      • @There1snospoon7491
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        1 year ago

        You can bend or break rules, laws, and your waifu as well. Are they objects or concepts?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        You can absolutely touch the mind, it’s just inside your skull so it’s hard to get at. What an inane thread.

        • Archmage AzorOP
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          01 year ago

          Sounds like somebody doesn’t know the difference between their mind and their brain

    • @SickPanda
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      Don’t let the feminists hear that you basically called women objects lol

  • Maharashtra
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    61 year ago

    Mind can neither break nor bend. It’s a figure of speech, dummy.

  • @testfactor
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    41 year ago

    Are “the rules” also an object?

  • @FiskFisk33
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    41 year ago

    TIL Wolverines claws are not objects.